The Final Countdown Slot

The Final Countdown is a game that was released a few years ago by Big Time Gaming game provider. I remember there was quite a lot of buzz around this release, also due to the fact that the game includes a song called the "Final Countdown" by a group named Europe. For me personally this game gives nostalgic 80's vibes and ever since it came out, it's a slot I play from time to time. It's definitely one of my favorite games from big Time Gaming due to its vibrant design and exciting bonus features. 

The game itself is inspired by the space theme and it brings you to a rocket ship that's waiting for the final countdown before heading into space. As I mentioned, the game has very bright and vibrant colors and it's a game that's definitely nice to look at. When it comes to bonus symbols, there's low paying symbols like letters and numbers while the high paying symbols are colorful gems, which is a classic thing from Big Time Gaming.

When it comes to the features, I think this game has a lot to offer. In the base game, the middle reels can sync and land either scatter symbols, wild symbol or other matching symbols. Many times because of this feature I've landed the free spins bonus round. Then there are also wild symbols- a spaceman and a space girl- they can land different wild multipliers. I've had several big base game hits simply due to a winning combination with a wild that has big value, such as 27x. 

However, the main part of this game is the free spins bonus round, which is triggered by 3 or more scatter symbols. Then you get to choose between 2 free spins features- either 8 free spins with a guaranteed wild or 15 free spins where you have the possibility to land a wild symbol with a random value. The difference is that if you select the 8 free spins, you need to collect scatters and each one reveals a different value from 1 to 3. Once you've collected 10, you get additional free spins and the wild grows in size and value- from 4x to 27x. There are altogether 3 stages, the last one being a 276x multiplier that covers the entire middle reels. While the other bonus feature can give you random size and value wilds or no wilds at all. 

I've tried both of the bonus features and I feel like the Countdown bonus with 8 spins is much more volatile, since you only start with the 4x wild and it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll get it in a winning combination. Also collecting scatters with a value of 10 can be difficult, but I personally like the collection mechanic and for me it adds the chase element. Also if you are lucky enough to get past the first stage, there's a good possibility for nice wins. My personal best win has been around 400x bet due to this bonus feature. 

Overall, this is a very entertaining game that is visually pleasing and has good winning potential.

However, I have to say that it's a high volatility game and sometimes I can't trigger free spins within more than 1000 spins, so it's definitely not a game I would play with a low balance or high stakes.

A slot from Big Time Gaming and based on a rocket ship theme. The slot comes locked and loaded with 6 reels, 4 rows, however instead of Big Time Gaming using their Megaways, they went instead with the 4096 ways to win. The minimum bet is only 0.20 which makes it a good slot to play for almost everyone. The slot comes with several features, including in the base game the reels will copy themselves (also occurs during free spins features), and in the features, you get a couple of free spins features to choose from, The Countdown or Heading for Venus. In the Countdown, you will get 8 free spins and it will have a roaming wild up to x256, and here you will also collect scatters to progress through the feature. In the Heading for Venus, you will get more free spins, in this case, 15 and in this, you get a velocity wild 4x4 wild win up to x888. You can also retrigger these spins too. I went with the Heading for Venus (I took this option because it is less volatile and I wanted to win some cashback during the session I had been playing) when I triggered my first feature on this slot. In my case, the feature ended up paying almost 100x which I had to say was a decent result. There was a double scatter tease on the last spin which gave me a little chance to retrigger but it wasn’t t be on that occasion.
Had only given this slot a few hundred spins over a few sessions and took just under 400 spins to trigger the feature. The music is so suitable for this slot and graphics to add it that futuristic look just gets into the feature and you will get to enjoy it. RTP is reasonable at 96.65% and that is quite acceptable. The base game can throw out some good wins too I had the best base win of 34x during one of my sessions. I would have to say this is one of Big Time Gaming's better slots. Much better than something like their Holy Diver or Kingmaker.

The feature could take ages to trigger and took almost 400 spins in my situation. Plenty of dead spins and low-paying spins occurring but that seems to be common with BTG slots.